Terrorists who overrun defenceless civilian neighbourhoods are not a match for any well equiped and trained army. The terrorists seem to think that by entering residential areas with arms, and trying to briefly hold them, causing death and destruction, is somehow going to defeat an army.

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Posted Jul-23-2012 By

bigdawg

@bigdawg I saw some news report that said Russia was going to send two divisions to help the Assad army. As always, the first casualty in war is truth, so I am not completely sure if that is actually true.

Posted Jul-23-2012 By

KaneKaizer

Disclaimer: Opposition, even armed opposition, to the Assad regime is not terrorism. Assad propagandists have labelled any criticism, even unarmed protesters, as terrorism. On the other hand, Assad's forces have committed numerous terrorist acts themselves, as thoroughly documented by the completely objective Amnesty International and many other organizations.

Posted Jul-23-2012 By

DEADBEEF

Suicide bombing is not itself a terrorist act, it depends on what you bomb. That said, there are many groups that are opposed to Assad operating in Syria and to label all of them with the actions of any one is simply incorrect.

There is no evidence that the FSA murders any of its prisoners, but in any event prisoner murder is more accurately a war crime which, though a bad thing, is not the same as terrorism which is a different bad thing.

On the other hand Assad's shabiha, who no More..less an expert than yourself have previously claimed are not independent of the SAA, go into towns and proceed to indiscriminately murder 100 civilians, that is most definitely a terrorist act.

And since when is the Syria government against terrorism? Their opposition to terrorism is quite recent, since they have in their previous 42 years of existence been absolutely immersed in terrorism, providing sanctuary to terrorists and terrorist organizations. They have provided absolutely critical support to Hezbollah, a terrorist organization with much American blood on its hands and who just recently arranged a bombing of Israeli tourists in Bulgaria.Less..

Posted Jul-23-2012 By

kingfordlm

Oh Puhleeze! LL is full of videos of Syrian soldiers being shot for the benefit of the camera.

No less than the BBC and the Guardian admit that the FSA kill all their prisoners. They also admit that a significant percentage have their throats slit or are decapitated for terrorist propaganda purposes.